13 Times the Internet Had ~Feelings~ About Kim and Kourtney Kardashian As Moms

While there are plenty of pros to being a mom in the public eye, the extra-intense scrutiny over every single life decision that comes from being in the spotlight is certainly not one of them.

That goes double if you're a reality star who seems to cause controversy just for stepping out of your home, like Kim Kardashian or Kourtney Kardashian.

Kim, who's the mom of Saint, 17 months, and North, nearly 4, with husband Kanye West, and her older sister Kourtney, who's the mom of Mason, 7, Penelope, 4, and Reign, 2, with ex Scott Disick, like most mothers (reality star or not), have made plenty of parenting decisions that elicited unsolicited feedback from moms all over the world.

"I just lost my appetite. ... That is the most disgusting
thing I've ever heard," Jenner said on an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians in 2013 when Kim contemplated doing the same thing post-North's birth.

Sometimes, as a pregnant woman, you can feel like a supreme
goddess gifting the universe with new life. And sometimes, like Kim confessed in a blog post, you feel like crap.

"I'm gonna keep it real," Kim wrote on her paid app.
"For me, pregnancy is the worst experience of my life! LOL! I don't enjoy one moment of it and I don't understand people who enjoy it." Many women, unsurprisingly, disagreed with the reality star.

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7When Kim said she was considering surrogacy.

After two pregnancies, Kim revealed that her placenta accreta
condition will make it impossible (and dangerous) to carry another child — so she and Kanye are looking into surrogacy for a third child. But apparently there is a large, vocal group on the internet that thinks she just doesn't want to get fat.

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8When Kim admitted to letting the haters get to her.

Kim's never been shy about her body (the nude photo shoots and
mirror selfies should've been the first clue), but after months and months of body shaming during her first pregnancy, she couldn't help but internalize some of the criticism.

"It was the worst!" she told C Magazine. "I couldn't help it, and everyone would say, 'She can't stop eating.' I delivered
at 180, and they were like, 'She's 210 pounds. She's getting dumped because she's too fat,' and all these ridiculous stories. It really took a toll after the fact, when I was losing weight."

She continued, "Before I was always smiling, and so into being out and about. After I had the baby, I was like, these are the same people that made fun of me, and posted the stories that were so awful, calling me fat for something I couldn't control. I don't want to smile for them. I don't want to be out. Even
if I was more confident, I just didn't feel like being that girl who was going to be smiling for every photo. It changed my mood; it changed who I was; it changed my personality a lot."

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9When Kim posted strange #spon pregnancy content.

Kim faced backlash when she posted a lengthy ad on her instagram
for the morning sickness drug Diclegis. Some were upset she endorsed the
product when she wasn't pregnant at the time, some were weirded out by the
photo she used, and still more weren't pleased with the actual copy of the ad,
which contained clinical language about its side effects.

Hey, when you gotta do it, you gotta do it. (For the record, most commenters thought this was funny, but concern trolls gotta troll...)

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11When Kim didn't make enough time for her friends.

Jonathan Cheban tried to make Kim feel guilty about not spending
time with him, but the KUWTK star had no time for the mom shaming — she was too busy with her two kids.

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12When Kim posed naked for a national magazine.

Don't you just hate when you look smokin' hot and decide to pose nude, only to have people remind you that you're a parent and apparently having children precludes you from being able to model sans clothes, as if those things have any correlation whatsoever?

A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Mar 7, 2016 at 12:07am PST

Kim fought back, writing on her website, "I want
[North] to be proud of who she is. I want her to be comfortable in her body. I
don't want her to grow up in a world where she is made to feel less-than for
embracing everything it means to be a woman. I am a mother. I am a wife, a
sister, a daughter, an entrepreneur and I am allowed to be sexy."

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